Discovered: Why obesity causes high blood pressure — and potential ways to fix
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered why obesity causes ...
Tag: Hematology
Clotting problem
UD-led team uncovers a blood disorder's creeping, crawling originCredit: Illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase Ouch, you've cut your finger! As ...
Novel sepsis treatment enhances bacterial capture by neutrophil ‘traps’
New treatment developed by CHOP researchers poised to improve sepsis outcomesCredit: Kandace Gollomp, MD Philadelphia, March 5, 2020--Researchers at Children's ...
New next-generation sequencing technique dramatically shortens diagnosis of sepsis
Availability of results within 5 to 6 hours of blood draw allows faster and more precise intervention when time is ...
The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short
The finding helps to better understand diseases such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosisCredit: CNIO In the past few decades, ...
Research project aims to make experiments on red blood cells more realistic
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are the pack animals of the human circulatory system. They transport oxygen ...
NIH announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to offer supplementary support for designs that can be developed into products on a rapid ...
Study points to better medical diagnosis through levitating human blood
Floating human plasma helps researchers detect diseases like opioid addictionCredit: UBCO New research from the UBC's Okanagan campus, Harvard Medical ...
CDI laboratory explores pathway to open up blood cancer treatments
The paper in Nature Communications could mean better treatment for leukemia, among other cancersCredit: Hackensack Meridian Health February 12, 2020, ...
The human brain’s meticulous interface with the bloodstream now on a precision chip
This new human blood-brain barrier on a chip gets its surprising edge by giving astrocytes 3D living spaceCredit: Georgia Tech ...
New way to study pituitary tumors holds potential for better diagnoses and treatments
Credit: Kumar Pichumani Houston Methodist neurosurgeons and neuroscientists are looking at a new way to classify pituitary tumors that could ...
Six patients with rare blood disease are doing well after gene therapy clinical trial
Treatment uses person's own stem cells instead of donor cellsCredit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Nature Medicine UCLA researchers are ...
Researcher discovers previously rejected function in the brain’s blood vessels
Credit: Lauritzen Lab, University of Copenhagen Allegedly, they should not exist in the brain, the so-called precapillary sphincters - a ...
Cancer study may accidentally help researchers create usable blood stem cells
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A massive research effort over more than a quarter century has tried to make ...
UNC expert helps treat astronaut’s blood clot during NASA mission
Blood clot expert Stephan Moll, M.D., professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, consulted NASA on how to ...
Hematopoietic stem cell marker: A key player in the ontogeny of hematopoiesis
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University revealed that ESAM (Endothelial cell-selective adhesion molecule), a surface marker ...
Research adds new twist to fight against autoimmune diseases
Study in Nature Immunology finds new drivers of destructive inflammationCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists describe in Nature Immunology an ...
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of drug-resistant superbug
Credit: UTHealth A deadly superbug that infects an estimated 54,500 Americans a year has a secret weapon, a protein, that ...
Dana-Farber scientists present promising findings in multiple myeloma at ASH Annual Meeting
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Results of studies on a novel agent to treat multiple myeloma and a combination therapy aimed ...
Use of venetoclax in transplant conditioning regimen shows promise in myeloid cancers
Trial is important step toward determining if this drug add-on can reduce risk of relapse in these patientsCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer ...